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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, May 29, 2007

SHOW BIZ
'Surf's Up' at Keo's during celebrity dinner

By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Columnist

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PEOPLE IN PARADISE: Actress Cameron Diaz and legendary surfer Kelly Slater hosted a private dinner at Keo's in Waikiki for "Surf's Up" pals during the recent "blue carpet" hoopla for the animated penguin film. (Slater provided the voice of a bird version of himself). I love the film's kicker — "a major ocean picture." It opens June 8. ...

Diaz, of course, voices Fiona in "Shrek the Third," and her next film project will be the romantic comedy "Whatever Happens in Vegas." She and Ashton Kutcher play unlikely marrieds. ...

TRADE WINDS: Magician John Hirokawa and his "Magic of Polynesia" (at the Ohana Waikiki Beachcomber hotel) will present "June Jones and the Magic Temple," a fundraiser for University of Hawai'i football coach Jones and the Warrior team, with a 6 p.m. reception (and silent auction) and 8:15 p.m. performance.

The Indiana Jones-inspired benefit — a mountain dominates the showroom set — should be the right fit for Hirokawa's wizardry. Individual tickets (which include two tickets to the UH's season's opener) are $125 and may be ordered at 944-2697, or etickethawaii .com. High rollers can reserve tables of eight at $1,250, $2,000 and $3,000; call 535-8532. Proceeds will benefit the Na Koa Football Club. ...

SPEAKING OF FUNDRAISERS: That recent "Dinner for Two" event at Hula's Bar & Lei Stand raised more than $10,000. Donated dinners, worth $2,000, yielded bids that topped $4,100. Hula's employees donated $130; the club tossed in $600. And a matching donation of $5,000 was provided by Spencer Krenke and Robert Schwai of Seattle. ...

Johnson Enos, who is part of the Ronald Bright-directed fundraiser set for June 8, 9 and 10 at Paliku Theatre at Windward Community College, is back from Orlando, where Disney is tapping one of his tunes for a theme-park parade. Enos, who's had music industry connections over the years, has learned that his niece, Tiffany Thurston, also in the Paliku show, was in Nashville recently finishing a CD. ...

Kapena has a new full-time drummer in Brandon Tucay, 19, a 2006 'Iolani School graduate. He's a six-year-veteran with the Honolulu Youth Symphony, with which he's performed on percussion. ...

RANDOM NOTES: Is AM the radio of the future, like the old days? Mornings are "happening." Tiny "Nitro" Tadani now is on K108 (1080 AM), where he is heard from 7 to 8 a.m., followed by John Noland. With Tiny, there's always a cross-media link: his simulcasts are seen on OC16, so that means no boroboro clothes in the wake-up slot, like other unseen jocks, plus he's got that Tiny Page in The Advertiser's Thursdays classifieds. Kimo Kahoano and Brickwood Galuteria are the voices (and faces) of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs' weekday programming on KKEA 940 AM, mixing chatter with Hawaiian music. And of course, Bobby Curran is on KKEA 1420 AM, Jim and Kanoa Leahey on KUMU 1500 AM, Rick Hamada on KHVH 830 AM, and the venerable Michael W. Perry and Larry Price on KSSK 590 AM (with a KSSK 92.3 FM simulcast). ...

Hawai'i-born Dane Justman, a graduate of 'Aiea and UH, recently relocated to Los Angeles and found himself on the Ellen DeGeneres show. He found himself dancing for the talk-show hostess, who wound up gabbing with the dude, kissing his hand, even asking him for his phone number and address. She shouted, "Somebody, give this guy an acting job," and now his parents, Honey and Robert Justman, are wondering if stardom of sorts await him. ...

Lauren Enos was 3 when her dad, Rick Enos, and partner Dick Bradley opened Compadres at Ward Centre. Twenty-four years later, she's heading up catering for all Compadres eateries in California and she came home to kokua at the Diamond Head Crater Celebration, where Compadres was one of the vendors. ...

And that's Show Biz. ...

Show Biz is published Tuesdays and Thursdays. Reach Wayne Harada at 525-8067, wharada@honoluluadvertiser.com or fax 525-8055.